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Department faculty equips students with the necessary quantitative and analytical skills, tools, knowledge and decision-making capabilities needed to excel in primary functional areas within any organization. |
Operations and Strategic Management
The Operations & Strategic Management Department consists of dedicated teachers and scholars in three distinct but mutually supportive disciplines:
- Operations Management
- Strategic Management
- Decision Analysis
This unique combination of disciplines covers the management of operations in both the goods and service producing sectors; the formulation and implementation of business strategy; and the effective development and use of analytical methods. We are managerial orientated and embrace the analytic skills required for successful practice. Our courses reflect the importance of environmental, ethical, and social issues in management decision making and our teaching methods include field studies, case studies, systems analysis, and analytical modeling.
Coursework in these areas is suitable for those pursuing careers in consulting, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare services, retail, transportation, technology, government, and not-for-profit organizations. Courses in our disciplines both intersect with and transcend the usual functional areas and are appropriate for those with primary interests in Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Computer Science or Human Resource Management.
Undergraduate and graduate students interested in pursuing a career in operations or strategic management can select from the following areas or develop their own unique concentration through a mix of elective and directed studies:
Undergraduate
- Operations and Technology Management
Graduate
Functional or Department Concentrations
Industry or interdisciplinary concentrations
Techno-MBAs
Our faculty are dedicated teachers, and productive researchers with many and varied accomplishments. In addition to the traditional blend of case study, lecture and text to structure and frame topics and discussion, faculty often integrate members of the business community into the classroom experience through an impressive roster of executive presentations and course projects at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Faculty also generously support many student activities including the advising of Beta Gamma Sigma, Entrepreneurship Society, Tech Club, Operations Management Academy, Students for Corporate Citizenship, and Students in Free Enterprise, which for the third straight year was named regional champion and advanced to the national competition.
